Simple All Saints’ Day Tea Party

So I’ve lived in places with excellent Catholic communities (such as Steubenville Ohio, and Northern Virginia) and I’ve lived in places with a far lesser Catholic presence (like South Carolina, where we currently live.) Although I still have an amazing virtual Catholic community, I don’t really have Catholic friends that live here in town, but I decided not to let that stop me from celebrating All Saints’ Day with my kids! I did have my sister-in-law and her 3 kids over, and we had a very simple, but very fun All Saints’ Day tea party with the kiddos! Here’s what we did.

So I had basically no time to plan an All Saints’ Day party- execution only. So this all came together very quickly. It did help that we live a Catholic lifestyle here, so we already have a lot of Saint stuff in the house to work with. I concentrated on 3 things for the All Saints’ Day tea party:

Gather costumes

Go shopping for food

Have some kind of activities… maybe

Decorationsdream on! 😉

That’s it. I used my Saintly food labels to make myself a shopping list. I love that these labels can just be paired with pre-packaged foods because I did not have time to cook this year. I used the labels with the food, and also paired the Saint peg dolls with the food if I had the right Saint.

All Saints’ Day Tea Party Food:

St. Francis’ Friends = Animal Cookies

St. Peter’s Fish = Goldfish Crackers

Tonsure Treats = Chocolate Doughnuts

St. Mary Magdalene’s Chai “Spice” Tea

St. Nicholas Treats = Little Debbie Santa-shaped-brownies with cross candies on his miter along with candy cane crosiers.

We have poetry teas every Wednesday now as part of our homeschooling (and love it!), so this tea party didn’t seem quite right without some poetry. Luckily, we have this adorable Alphabet Saint poetry book (that I totally recommend, by the way!) and the kids really enjoyed the poems!

Tea party fun!

Before eating, we prayed, then did a short litany of Saints with the kids, asking everyone we were dressed up as today to “pray for us.”

The Costumes

Lydia as Our Lady of Fatima

Great thing about a casual All Saints’ Day party at home… no one needs shoes. 😉

This is so great! I lived in SC in the late 80’s as a child and I think it was only 3% Catholic at that time. Our church had a huge native Nigerian population and I always loved being invited and included in that culture. Thanks for sharing all of your great resources and ideas!

Love it! Sometimes simpler is better. Still looks like a lot of work, but it is so worth it giving our children some excitement about their faith! We are blessed to a have a growing Catholic homeschooling community around us. It is wonderful you are taking time to keep the faith alive even if the communal support isn’t there.

Thanks- that’s how I felt, too. Like, I would love to just let it go (one less thing, right?) but we’re right in the thick of things right now with the ages of the children. These are the years you lay the traditions they will cherish forever!

I just wanted to say that you might consider inviting non-Catholic friends. I have done VBS at our house before the kids were old enough for the ones at church and I invited Catholics and non-Catholics and all had fun. I even did a day a couple years ago of making your pipe cleaner Advent wreaths and I invited several MOMS Club friends and even the mom that is Muslim brought her daughter and had lots of fun and even asked lots of great questions. You never know who might be interested!

She’s holding a red egg (you can google Mary Magdalene and the red egg) and a teapot, which is supposed to be a jar for the oil she brought to the tomb on Easter morning. She was trying to match the symbols on her favorite peg doll. 🙂

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